Promoting a competitive marketplace has been the main focus for regulators concerned with "killer acquisitions"—when big companies swallow small startups to eliminate a potential rival.
Economics & Business
Jun 21, 2024
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Social media and messaging apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Messenger are increasingly used to buy and sell drugs in many countries. New Zealand is no exception.
Social Sciences
May 23, 2024
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In 2022, the insurance industry made a whopping USD 6 trillion globally—more than the entire economy of big countries like Japan and Germany. A recent study, published in The Journal of Finance and Data Science, looked ...
Economics & Business
Jan 3, 2024
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Terrorist attacks and mass shootings are devastating for the people and communities they affect. These events impact our society in many ways, including perhaps unexpectedly, by changing how big companies calculate and report ...
Social Sciences
Dec 6, 2023
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Despite a 2013 pledge by major palm oil firms to maintain environmentally friendly operations, a recent report by environmental group Earthqualizer revealed that more than 440,000 hectares of forest and peat land (roughly ...
Environment
Feb 2, 2023
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During the first year of the pandemic, and amid protests for racial justice following the murder of George Floyd, tech companies such as Google, Yelp and DoorDash started "Black-owned" labeling campaigns to encourage customer ...
Social Sciences
Aug 30, 2022
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Recent years have seen the business community become more aware of and active in sustainability issues, but real progress remains elusive.
Economics & Business
Dec 1, 2021
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A study in which machine-learning models were trained to assess over 1 million companies has shown that artificial intelligence (AI) can accurately determine whether a startup firm will fail or become successful. The outcome ...
Economics & Business
Sep 7, 2021
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Astrophysicists, telescopes, supercomputers, and software engineers have joined forces to search for signals from the early Universe.
Astronomy
Mar 24, 2020
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Coming up with a good creative idea is hard. We do not fully understand how this process works, but there are certain techniques that have proved successful in fostering creativity, such as mind-mapping, brainstorming or ...
Economics & Business
Sep 5, 2019
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